Books:
- Corrigan and Hudson, Religion in America (8th edition)
- Edward E. Curtis, Muslims in America. Oxford University Press, 2009.
American Piety in in 21st century: New Insights to the Depth and Complexity of Religion in the US, Selected Findings from the Baylor Religion Survey (Sept 2006) American-Piety-Finall
Fronter and online articles:
- Margaret Bendroth, “Why Women Loved Billy Sunday: Urban Revivalism and Popular Entertainment in EarlyTwentieth-Century American Culture” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 14: 2 (Summer2004) 251-271
- Stephen Prothero, “Manly Redeemer,” Chapter 3 in American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Selected Documents and articles.
Individual pensum: Each MA student will choose additional readings, to be approved by me. These will be divided among 2-3 themes. At least one of the themes will be jointly agreed upon by all the MA students. MA students will meet with me as a group at the end of the first class and will sign up for individual meetings within the first two weeks of teaching. Some themes to consider are: Puritans; 1st, 2nd or 3rd Great Awakenings; Evangelicalism; feminism and religion; science and religion; religion and politics; constitutional challenges to religion; religion and social policy; Islam in the USA historically; Mormonism; 19th century social-religious experiments; African-American Religious history, Immigrant religion; etc.
Optional Additional Resources:
- Bret E. Carroll, The Routledge Historical Atlass of Religion in America,
- Patrick Allitt, Major Problems in American Religious History. Wadsworth Publishing; 2 edition (January 1, 2012) Excerpts.